US20040188873A1 - Method for producing resin lens and the resin lens - Google Patents

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US20040188873A1
US20040188873A1 US10/484,228 US48422804A US2004188873A1 US 20040188873 A1 US20040188873 A1 US 20040188873A1 US 48422804 A US48422804 A US 48422804A US 2004188873 A1 US2004188873 A1 US 2004188873A1
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    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
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  • the present invention relates to a method for producing resin lenses, and to the lenses.
  • the invention relates to resin lenses that are produced by molding at least two materials, and are inexpensive and have good chemical and physical properties.
  • Resin lenses are generally produced by casting a flowable optical resin into a mold followed by curing it therein, and they are formed of one type of optical resin.
  • optical resin is lightweight and has good tintability, impact resistance and mechanical workability.
  • resin with good optical properties could not always have good other properties.
  • one type of resin could not satisfy all the requirements. For example, hard resin is often brittle and its machinability is not good.
  • some resin, though having a high refractive index, may undergo chromatic aberration and therefore may be unfashionable since its Abbe's number is low and its tintability is not good.
  • a technique of laminating thin resin films having various effects and advantages into a laminate structure has heretofore been carried out for increasing the added value of resin lenses.
  • a base lens is coated with a hard coat layer for improving its scratch resistance of the coated lenses, or is coated with a photochromic layer.
  • Prior art references relating to the present invention are JP-A 60-205401 and JP-A 8-216271.
  • the former discloses a technique of casting a resin onto a glass lens that has been previously injection-molded to thereby integrally mold a aspherical lens.
  • this technique is not for covering up the optical or chemical drawbacks of glass lenses themselves but for changing the shape of lenses to thereby enhance the mass-producibility of lenses.
  • the latter discloses a technique of previously molding a resin lens, removing one mold from it, forming a cavity on one side of the lens, casting a photochromic material into the cavity, and integrally molding it to thereby form a photochromic layer on one side of the resin lens. From these related techniques, it is considered that a method of forming a cavity on one face of a molded article, casting a different resin into the cavity and integrally molding it is known. However, these techniques are based on the assumption that the properties of the substrate lens are utilized directly as they are. An idea of combining two or more different resin materials having different properties for covering up the drawbacks of the substrate lenses that are formed of the thus-combined resin materials is not shown in any reference.
  • one object of the present invention is to cover up the drawbacks of optical resin to thereby improve the optical properties and also the physical and chemical properties of the resin lenses.
  • the invention is a method for producing a resin lens having a refractive index of at least 1.45 by using at least two types of resin material, which comprises processing at least one resin material into a non-flowable shaped body, then forming a cavity on one bonding face of the shaped body, casting the other resin material that differs from the material of the shaped body in point of their properties into the cavity and polymerizing and curing it in the cavity to thereby give a molded resin article of at least two different types of resin material air tightly integrated with each other, and processing the article into a lens in which the properties of at least two different types of resin material are complementary to each other to improve the lens in at least one point of the surface reflection properties, the physical properties, the tintability and the workability thereof.
  • the present invention is based on the inventors' finding that monomer can air tightly bond to a shaped body while it is polymerized into polymer not using an adhesive or a coupling agent. In this description, this is referred to as “polymerization bonding”.
  • the step of “processing at least one resin material into a non-flowable shaped body” means as follows: Since the starting monomer for the resin material or the melt of the resin material is naturally flowable and therefore does not have a stable shape, it is first heated, or exposed to light rays (electromagnetic waves) such as UV rays or IR rays, or cured so that it is shaped into a desired shape.
  • the shape of the shaped body varies depending on its use. As it is, the shaped body may not have the properties of finished lens, and it may be referred to as “intermediate”.
  • the shaped body may include films and the like having particular optical properties.
  • the molded resin article that is fabricated by applying a different resin monomer to the shaped body followed by integrally bonding the two may be directly used as a finished lens as it is, but it may be a half-finished lens that is further worked, for example, ground, polished or cut into a finished lens.
  • materials having different properties as above are combined and integrated to give a lens of which the different properties of the materials are complementary to each other.
  • Selecting the resins is not limited to the above, and any materials capable of undergoing polymerization bonding together may be selected and combined for use herein.
  • thermoplastic resin of good shapability is worked into a shaped body of different morphology, and a cavity is formed on the outer face of this body serving as an intermediate, and a different optical material is cast into the cavity and polymerized therein, and is integrated with the intermediate.
  • the process does not require an adhesive and a coupling agent for ensuring the bonding of the two parts.
  • the easily-tintable resin is essentially dyed and the lens is thereby colored.
  • an easily-tintable resin is applied to one face of a shaped body of a hardly-tintable resin in a mode of polymerization bonding to fabricate a part of a lens, and this is colored.
  • the hardly-tintable resin part of the lens may look colored.
  • Some optical resin of high refractivity is hardly tintable.
  • an episulfido group-having sulfur-containing resin has a refractive index of 1.74, or that is, its refractive index is the height of all known at present in the art.
  • its dyeability is poor.
  • the present invention may cover up the drawback of the high-refractivity optical resin, therefore realizing colored lenses of the resin with ease.
  • the invention makes it possible to eliminate the drawbacks in machining the lenses formed of the combined resins.
  • hard resin lenses may be readily cracked when they are fitted into frames of glasses, and, in addition, they have another problem in that, when they are fitted into two-point frames of glasses in which both the bridge and the temples are directly screwed to the lenses, then the lenses may be burred or cracked when they are drilled for screws.
  • These problems may be solved by forming a thin layer of an optical resin of good machinability on at least one face of the intermediate as a part of the lens from the intermediate.
  • the part that is formed for that purpose may be the front or back face of the lens or the periphery around the area to be drilled.
  • the weakness of the resin material of low impact resistance may be covered up and lenses of high impact resistance can be obtained.
  • Resin lenses of high refractivity are generally not resistant to shock.
  • the high-refractivity episulfide resin having a refractive index of 1.74 is not resistant to shock, and when lenses formed of it are tested in an FDA steel ball dropping test, they could not over 4 times the standard level.
  • a thin resin layer of high impact resistance is bonded to a lens body in a mode of polymerization bonding, and the thus-laminated lens may pass the 4-time level in the FDA test even though its center thickness is not intentionally increased.
  • a low-refractivity optical resin of the two may be disposed on the side of a lens that is exposed to air, whereby the surface reflectance of the lens may be reduced and the light transmittance through the lens may be increased.
  • the surface reflectance R may be represented by the following Fresnel formula:
  • n g indicates the refractive index of the substrate
  • n o indicates the refractive index of air.
  • either one or both of an organic thin film of good abrasion resistance and an antireflective thin film are formed on one or both outer surfaces of the resin lens produced according to the method mentioned above.
  • the surface refractivity of the lens itself may be reduced and, in addition, since an antireflection layer is formed on the surface of the lens that is kept in contact with air, the transmittance of the lens may be increased.
  • employable is any ordinary method.
  • an urethane resin with inorganic fine particles dispersed therein may be applied to the lens in a mode of dipping or spin coating to form a layer having a thickness of from 1 to 2 ⁇ m followed by thermally curing it; or a UV-curable resin such as acrylic resin may be used for the film.
  • a multi-layered thin metal film may be formed through sputtering.
  • those having desirable properties may be selected from various optical resins and may be integrated into lenses, and the workability of the lenses is bettered.
  • the invention makes it possible to provide high-quality lenses at low costs.
  • FIG. 1( a ) is a cross-sectional view of a shell;
  • (b) is a cross-sectional view of the shell filled with a resin;
  • (c) is a cross-sectional view of an intermediate;
  • (d) is a cross-sectional view with a cavity provided therein, a cross-sectional view of the cavity filled with a different resin;
  • (e) is a cross-sectional view of the cavity filled with a resin that differ from that for the intermediate; and
  • (f) is a cross-sectional view of a resin lens of the invention.
  • FIG. 1( a ) is a cross-sectional view of a shell.
  • a female mold 1 and a male mold 2 are combined to have a center gap of t 1 , and sealed up with an adhesive tape 4 at their peripheries to form a cavity 6 a to thereby construct the shell 10 a .
  • the adhesive tape is partly peeled and a resin 3 a is filled into the cavity, and the shell is again sealed up and the resin therein is processed for thermal polymerization.
  • the resin 3 a is gradually cooled and cured.
  • the cured resin 3 a forms an intermediate 3 .
  • FIG. 1( a ) is a cross-sectional view of a shell.
  • a female mold 1 and a male mold 2 are combined to have a center gap of t 1 , and sealed up with an adhesive tape 4 at their peripheries to form a cavity 6 a to thereby construct the shell 10 a .
  • the adhesive tape is partly peeled and a resin 3 a is filled
  • FIG. 1( c ) is a cross-sectional view, in which the mold 1 is removed and the mold 2 is stuck to the intermediate 3 .
  • FIG. 1( d ) is a cross-sectional view of a shell 10 b , in which the released mold 1 is again attached to the intermediate 3 via a center gap therebetween of t 2 , and sealed up with an adhesive tape to form a cavity 6 b .
  • FIG. 1( e ) is a cross-sectional view of a shell 10 c with another resin 5 a filled in the cavity 6 b . In this, the resin 5 a is thermally polymerized and cured into a resin 5 that bonds to the intermediate 3 in a mode of polymerization bonding.
  • FIG. 1( c ) is a cross-sectional view, in which the mold 1 is removed and the mold 2 is stuck to the intermediate 3 .
  • FIG. 1( d ) is a cross-sectional view of a shell 10 b , in which the released
  • 1( f ) is a cross-sectional view of a polymerization-bonded lens 11 of the invention, which is obtained by removing the molds 1 and 2 .
  • the intermediate 3 and the additional resin 5 are integrated together to form a lens having a center thickness of t.
  • a combined glass mold (hereinafter referred to as “mold”) having a diameter of 80 mm to give a diopter of 7.00 was prepared, and sealed up with an adhesive tape at the periphery thereof to have a center gap of 1.2 mm or 0.6 mm. Two pairs of shells were thus constructed.
  • a catalyst-mixed monomer for episulfide resin (HIE, having a refractive index of 1.74) was filled into the cavity of each shell, and thermally polymerized therein. The mold was removed from the shell having a center gap of 1.2 mm, and an episulfide resin lens of ⁇ 7.00 D was obtained.
  • the lens had a uniform 0.6 mm-thick urethane resin layer formed on the convex face of the intermediate in a mode of polymerization bonding, and its center thickness was 1.2 mm.
  • a resin lens formed of a hardly-tintable lens material can be modified into a tintable resin lens by bonding an easily-tintable lens material thereto in a mode of polymerization bonding, and, in addition, it is possible to fabricate lenses with no power change by bonding a layer of a different resin having a uniform thickness to the curved surface of a lens substrate in a mode of polymerization bonding.
  • the polymerization bonding of a different material to a lens substrate is not limited to the convex face of the lens substrate but may also be to the concave face thereof.
  • the same mold was used while spaced from the intermediate by 0.6 mm, and strictly speaking, therefore, the urethane resin part could not be a layer having a uniform thickness.
  • the difference in question is 0.0013 mm at the periphery of the lens having a diameter of 80 mm, and this is within a negligible range.
  • Example 2 In the same manner as in Example 1, an episulfide resin monomer (HIE) was formed into an intermediate having a center thickness of 0.6 mm; and also in the same manner as in Example 1, a 0.6 mm-thick layer of an easily-machinable urethane resin monomer (MR-7) was bonded to the convex face of the intermediate in a mode of polymerization bonding to construct a polymerization-bonded lens of episulfide resin and urethane resin.
  • HIE episulfide resin monomer
  • MR-7 easily-machinable urethane resin monomer
  • lenses for two-point frames are worked into predetermined shapes, and then drilled for screws at their peripheries.
  • the polymerization-bonded lens fabricated in the above was not broken while drilled, and its drilled area was neither burred nor cracked. Good holes were formed in the lens.
  • the lens formed of episulfide resin alone was, after worked into a predetermined shape, drilled at the periphery thereof, it was cracked from the hole toward its edge and, in addition, its holes were burred. In this lens, good holes could not be formed.
  • a female mold and a male mold were so combined that the cavity thus formed could have a center gap of 1.10 mm or 0.5 mm, and sealed up with an adhesive tape at their peripheries to construct a shell.
  • Three shells were constructed in that manner.
  • An episulfide resin monomer (HIE) was filled into the cavity of each shell, and thermally polymerized therein. After thus thermally polymerized therein, the three shells having a cavity center gap of 1.10 mm were split to remove the female and male molds.
  • the episulfide resin lenses of ⁇ 6.00 D having a refractive index of 1.74 had a center thickness of 1.12 mm, 1.16 mm or 1.17 mm.
  • both the male mold and the female mold were removed to obtain three polymerization-bonded lenses in which the urethane resin was bonded to the intermediate of episulfide resin in a mode of polymerization bonding.
  • the center thickness of the polymerization-bonded lenses was 1.13 mm, 1.13 mm and 1.18 mm, respectively.
  • the FDA-standard test is to test lenses as to whether or not they are broken when a 16.2 g steel ball is spontaneously dropped thereon from a height of 1.27 m (that is, as to whether or not the falling ball penetrates through the lens or the lens is broken into at least 2 pieces). When the lenses were broken, they are rejected; but when they had star cracks (that is, they were star-wise cracked), they are good. In the FDA 4-time test, the weight of the steel ball that is 16.2 g in the standard test is increased by 4 times to 64.8 g.
  • high-refractivity lenses are to have a high YI value through high-temperature polymerization and, in addition, since the amount of the UV absorbent to be added to their material for improving the UV absorbability of the lenses increase, the lenses fabricated after polymerization and curing are to have a further increased YI value (yellowness index). Moreover, with the increase in the refractive index of the materials for the lenses, the luminous transmittance of the lenses in a visible light range lowers since the surface reflectance of the materials increases.
  • the present inventors have assiduously studied these problems and, as a result, have found, when a low-refractivity material is bonded to a high-refractivity material lens in a mode of polymerization bonding, then the YI value of the resulting lens may be lowered and, in addition, the luminous transmittance of the lens in a visible light range may also be increased.
  • this embodiment is given below.
  • a female mold and a male mold were sealed up with an adhesive tape at their peripheries to construct a shell having a center gap of 1.2 mm.
  • other two shells were also fabricated but having a center gap of 0.5 mm.
  • the following components were prepared and filled into the cavity of these three shells.
  • the shells were heated for polymerization. Then, the shell having a center gap of 1.2 mm was split to remove the female and male molds, and a high-refractivity lens (sample lens 1 ) having a center thickness of 1.17 mm and a refractive index of 1.74 was thus fabricated.
  • the shell was heated for polymerization, and the male and female glass molds were both removed to obtain a lens.
  • a 0.66 mm-thick layer of the optical material having a refractive index of 1.67 was bonded to the convex face of the intermediate having a refractive index of 1.74 and having a center thickness of 0.49 mm in a mode of polymerization bonding.
  • the lens is a high-refractivity lens (sample lens 2 ) having a center thickness of 1.15 mm.
  • the shell was heated for polymerization, and the male and female molds were both removed to obtain a lens.
  • a 0.67 mm-thick layer of the optical material having a refractive index of 1.60 was bonded to the convex face of the intermediate having a refractive index of 1.74 and having a center thickness of 0.49 mm in a mode of polymerization bonding.
  • the lens is a high-refractivity lens (sample lens 3 ) having a center thickness of 1.16 mm.
  • Sample lens 1 has a refractive index of 1.74, of which the refractive index is on the highest level of high-refractivity plastic lenses now available on the market.
  • the lenses formed of the high-refractivity material are problematic in their weather resistance, and a large amount of UV absorbent is therefore added to the material for improving the weather resistance thereof.
  • the lenses could absorb almost all UV rays up to 400 nm, or that is, they are extremely high-precision UV-absorbent lenses that transmit only about 7% UV rays at 400 nm.
  • the material is thioepisulfide resin (HIE), it requires long-time polymerization at high temperature.
  • the influence of such high-temperature polymerization on the lenses is significant and the yellowness index (YI value) of the lenses is thereby increased.
  • the YI value of sample lens 1 is 2.59.
  • the material has such a high YI value and it is a high-refractivity material, the lenses formed of it have a large surface reflectance.
  • the luminous transmittance of the sample lens in a visible light range is 86.51%.
  • the luminous transmittance of plastic lenses of ordinary diethylene glycol bisallylcarbonate is around 90%, and the YI value thereof is at most 1.0.
  • Sample lens 2 is better than sample lens 1 in point of the YI value and the luminous transmittance thereof.
  • sample lens 2 was constructed by bonding a 0.66 mm-thick layer of urethane resin having a refractive index of 1.67, which is lower than that of the base resin for the intermediate, to the convex face of the intermediate having a refractive index of 1.74, in a mode of polymerization bonding.
  • sample lens 3 was constructed by bonding the urethane resin having a further lower refractive index to the intermediate in a mode of polymerization bonding, and therefore this is still more better than sample lens 2 in point of the luminous transmittance and the YI value thereof.
  • a high-refractivity material lens has an increased YI value and an increased surface reflectance.
  • a layer having a predetermined uniform thickness of an additional lens material, of which the refractive index is lower than that of a base material of high refractivity is bonded to the surface of a lens of the base material in a mode of polymerization bonding, then the bonded lens are better than the high-refractivity material lens in point of the YI value and the luminous transmittance thereof.
  • This embodiment of the invention provides lenses with high added value that look very good with high transparency.
  • the polymerization bonding of a different material to the intermediate of a high-refractivity material to form a layer having a predetermined thickness on the intermediate is not limited to any one of the convex face or the concave face of the substrate, but, as the case may be, may be to both the two faces thereof for further improving the function of the resulting lenses.
  • One is to use a spin coater in forming the thin film to thereby make the thin film have a uniform thickness; and the other is to add fine particles of metal oxide to the hard coat liquid in order that the refractive index of the hard coat film could be nearer to that of the lens material.
  • the spin coater is unfavorable for mass-production of lenses for stock.
  • fine particles of metal oxide when added to the hard coat liquid, then it may lower the weather-resistant adhesiveness between the lens surface and the hard coat film and the hard coat film will be readily peeled.
  • the present inventors have found out a solution of the problems to prevent the formation of interference fringes by making the refractive index of the surface of the high-refractivity lens nearer to that of the hard coat layer rather than increasing the refractivity of the hard coat liquid.
  • Two pairs of female and male glass molds having the same radius of curvature were prepared. One pair of the two was combined to have a center gap of 0.6 mm and sealed up with an adhesive tape at their peripheries, while the other was to have a center gap of 1 mm and sealed up in the same manner. Two shells were thus constructed with a cavity formed therein. An episulfide resin monomer (HIE) was filled into the cavity of each shell and thermally polymerized. Next, the male and female molds were both removed from one shell having a cavity center gap of 1 mm to obtain a high-refractivity lens having a center thickness of 1 mm, a refractive index of 1.74 and a power of ⁇ 4.00 D. Only the female glass mold was removed from the other shell having a center gap of 0.6 mm to obtain an intermediate, but the male mold was still kept stuck to the intermediate.
  • HIE episulfide resin monomer
  • the removed female mold was again attached to the intermediate in such a manner that the distance between the center part of the mold and the center part of the convex face of the intermediate could be 0.4 mm, and this was sealed up with an adhesive tape at the peripheries of the molds.
  • a shell was thus constructed with a cavity formed therein.
  • a monomer for urethane resin (MR-8) having a refractive index of 1.60 was filled into the cavity and thermally polymerized, and then both the female mold and the male mold were removed to obtain a lens.
  • a 0.4 mm-thick uniform layer of a resin of the monomer having a refractive index of 1.60 was bonded to the convex face of the intermediate having a refractive index of 1.74 and a center thickness of 0.6 mm, in a mode of polymerization bonding.
  • Table 3 shows the result of polymerization bonding test of various optical materials. Based on the data given in this Table, suitable materials may be selected for fabricating inexpensive half-finished lenses at low costs. However, the resin materials usable in the invention are not limited to those shown in Table 3, and any other combinations that satisfy the optical properties for lenses and the polymerization bondability to each other are employable in the invention.
  • MR-6, 7, 8 are all trade names of Mitsui Chemical's urethane resin products; HIE is a trade name of Mitsui Chemical's episulfide resin product; CR- 39 is PPG's diethylene glycol bisallylcarbonate; PC is polycarbonate resin; and PMMA is polymethyl methacrylate resin.
  • the resin lenses of the invention may be used as high-quality lenses for glasses. According to the method of the invention, such high-quality lenses for glasses may be provided at low costs.
  • resins that differ in their optical properties or in any other physical properties and/or chemical properties thereof may be combined and integrated to provide lenses of good quality that may cover up the unsatisfactory properties of the individual resins.
  • the different resin materials may bond to each other in the step of polymerization to give lenses.
  • the lenses of the invention do not require any optical adhesive or primer, and therefore do not require any special attention to be paid to the optical properties in the bonded area of lenses.

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